Fruit and vegetable slicer



Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,469 M. KIRNBAUER FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SLICER Filed May 26. 1923 Patented Jan. 1, 1924.

UNITED STATES MICHAEL KIRNIBAUER, or ronns'r PARK, ILLINOIS.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SLICEB.

Application filed May 26, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that MICHAEL KIRNBAUER, a citizen of the Republic of Austria (who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States of America), residing at Forest Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Fruit and Vegetable Slicers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type. of slicing machines in which relative movement between the material in a holding hopper and a cutting or slicing blade, in a rectilinear plane 1s adapted to effect the slicing operation, an example of which constitutes the subject matter of my prior Patent No. 1,442,222, dated January 16, 1923.

The various objects'of the present improvement are: to provide a structural formation and combination of parts, with which the material supporting platform can be adjusted in relation to the cutting edge of the cutter blade to attain the required thickness of the sliced material produced. Also to provide a formation and arrangement of parts whereby a complete severance of the slices of material is attained in an effective manner. Also to provide in connection with the adjusting means of the material supporting platform, supplementary means for effecting a shreading of the material simultaneous with the slicin of the same, all as will hereinafter more ully appear. In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a slicing macllrin; having the present improvements ap p 1e Fig. 2, is an end elevation of the same.

Fig. 3, is a detail longitudinal sectional elevation of the slicin mechanism.

Fig, 4, is a detail orizontal section on line 4,-4, Fig. 3.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts in the several views.

In the drawing, the present improvements are shown applied to the type of machines forming the subject matter of prior Patent No. 1,442,222, dated January 16, 1923, in which a holding hopper 1, has rectilinear reciprocation upon a'stationary bed plate 2, carryin a transversely arranged cutting or slicing Elade 3. In the present construction the blade 3 is fixedly secured to the bed plate 2, and the open bottom hopper 1 is pro- Serial No. 641,794.

vided at the end remote from theblade; 3 with a transverse recess or channel 4 adapted to receive the cutting point of saidblade,

Wall of the hopper 1 and. attaimamefi'ect ve 3. l J: i In Figs. 3 and 4,,the numeral fi designates a plate or platform hinged atone end-to. the, bed plate 2, with the other and movable. end arran .ed in adjacent, relation to the,

blade 3 a oresaid.- The platform- 5 is ill:-

ranged beneath the lowerend of the holding hopper l, to provide a support for theme-Q terial in said hopper and maintain said material in proper relation to the cutter blade 3, and so that by a vertical adjustment of the movable end of said platform 5, the thickness of the slice of the material being cut can be varied as required. With a. view to an accurate and effective adjustment of the platform 5, means as follows are provided.

6, designates a drum pivoted eccentrically in the bed plate 2 and extending in a transverse direction beneath the movable end of the platform 5, and adapted by a turning adjustment to attain a corresponding vertical adjustment of the platform 5 with relation to the cutter blade 3.

In the preferred construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, a transverse series of auxil iary cutters or knives 7 are secured to the periphery of the drum 6, and are adapted in a turning adjustment of said drum to be brought into the path of the material to be sliced, and into a corresponding series of slots 3 in the movable end of the platform 5, so as to divide or shread the material during the main slicing action of the cutter blade 3.

9, designates an operating handle or crank secured to the carrying shaft of the drum 6, for elfectin the required turning adjustment of said rum, and in the construction shown in Figs, 1 and 2, the handle 9 moves in front of an indicator dial 10 to indicate the different adjustments to which the mechanism is to be set.

Havin thus fully described my invention, what I c aim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

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